Open Thread: Reality Check on Bus Service and the Salesforce Transit Center
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What if the money had been spent on minor upgrades to stations throughout the East Bay, such as adding arrival signs, benches, and shelters? What if the money were spent on more buses, more drivers, and better bus fleets with comfortable seats and suspensions?
Today’s Headlines
|- Lime extends equity program to its entire nationwide vehicle fleet (Smart Cities Dive)
- Busy Berkeley street to get flashing pedestrian signal—one day, soon. People are already complaining because “confusion” (Berkeleyside)
- Bike Champions: An inexpensive way for companies to encourage more bike commuting (Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition)
- Surprise! Scientists find that drivers just plain old aren’t looking for bikes (CityLab)
- How Fresno won $70 million to clean up its air (Next City)
- Gas tax opponents claim it’s not necessary, an argument based on solidly wishful thinking (CalMatters)
- Where the gas tax goes (CalMatters)
- San Diego Trolley cuts crime by sending security to ride train, issue tickets for fare evasion (San Diego Union Tribune)
- SF’s new transbay transit center is not your average bus stop (CityLab)
- We were warned: a still-relevant 1973 essay on how cars change the very fabric of our lives (Uneven Earth)
- Electric buses good, but don’t neglect expansion, improvement of transit (Energy at Haas)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Trump Administration Withholding $1.4 Billion in Transit Funds Authorized by Congress
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The money is ready and waiting. Yet only one transit project has received funding this fiscal year, putting more than a dozen others in jeopardy.
Sorry Bus Stops, Round 1 Matchup: Nashville vs. Houston
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The first matchup of 2018 features two waiting spaces that are not for the faint of heart.
Huizar Cuts Ribbon on El Sereno’s Alhambra Avenue Safety Improvements
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Photos of new safety improvements along Alhambra Blvd
What’s Just? A Cyclist’s Dilemma After Being Injured by an Undocumented Driver
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Kristen Green from Ghost Bikes Chicago installs memorials to fallen cyclists. But after she experienced traffic violence herself, she faced a moral predicament.
After Recent Deaths, Bike East Bay Renews Call for Safety Fixes
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John Wheeler, Christopher Bunag, Deontae Bush, and Martin Nelis all killed by motorists in just the past few weeks
Meet Six Sorry Bus Stops That Weren’t Sorry Enough to Make the Cut
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Streetsblog received so many submissions for our Sorriest Bus Stop competition we didn't have room for these.
Today’s Headlines
|- Huge new transbay transit center opens in San Francisco (The Epoch Times)
- Marin water district puts up signs prohibiting all e-bikes from its trails (Marin Independent Journal)
- Work begins in Salinas in anticipation of future commuter rail service connection to Bay Area (The Californian)
- BART security plan is not popular (Curbed)
- Where your gas tax dollars go (CalMatters)
- Oakland is undergoing a massive construction boom (Mercury News)
- What would happen if cars were removed from cities? (European Sting)
- Aliso Canyon mitigation settlement could go towards reducing methane from cows (Inside Climate News)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
SGV Connect 24: Double Decker Buses and Open Space Funding
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Welcome back to SGV Connect. In today’s episode, our co-hosts conduct two interviews on the expansion of the Foothill Transit bus fleet and the arrival of open space funds in L.A. County. First, Kris Fortin follows up on the news (SGV Tribune, Forbes) that Foothill Transit is adding double-decker buses to their commuter fleet. Foothill […]
BART Board Hears Proposed Security Measures
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More cameras, better data management, hardening the system--but opponents fear privacy invasion and police abuses